Kristen Stewart, Brydie O’Connor, and Christine Vachon discuss the uphill battle of making their new movie, ‘Barbara Forever.’ ‘As one of my mentors said to me, Brydie, you’re making a movie about a dead lesbian experimental filmmaker.’

The actress co-founded the Displacement Film Fund, the initiative behind Mo Amer’s and Bao Nguyen’s next films.

Features writer Rachel Handler spent 60 minutes inside John Early and Kate Berlant’s perfect, ‘brain-dead’ relationship. The best friends and ‘Maddie’s Secret’ stars discussed sincerity, couples therapy, and why they’ve never had a TV show.

2026 was the year boomer AI slop arrived at Cannes. Vulture’s Rachel Handler dragged her decreasingly human form from Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties and found the prestigious film festival overrun by tech.

From Meta House to Soderbergh’s doc to yacht parties, tech overran the prestigious film festival.

At Cannes, Andy Garcia discusses his long-stewing passion project ‘Diamond,’ Cher, nightmares, and AI: ‘Anything that takes away the human experience, or a job away from someone who needs one, I just don’t like it.’

In an interview with Rachel Handler at Cannes, Cate Blanchett discusses AI-phobia, ‘risk-averse’ Hollywood, how she’s preparing to play Martha Stewart, waking up with anxiety at 3 a.m., and why she started the Displacement Film Fund.

At a Cannes gala, Sharon Stone dommed the audience. “Put that down. Stop eating. Turn to that guy right there. Yes, you in the white, turn to him, tell him you care he’s carrying pain, that you love him.”

‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ has become a consensus choice for the best of Cannes so far. “I have a feeling for a lot of people, especially men, the sex scenes will be like, ‘What am I looking at?’” explains director Jane Schoenbrun.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival is decidedly Hollywood-less, featuring zero American studio movies in the official lineup. But Demi Moore still showed up to discuss AI: ‘Againstness breeds againstness.’

The theme of the 2026 Oscars was “humanity.” The walking caviar bar suggested otherwise. Here is everything writer Rachel Handler saw and overheard behind the scenes of Hollywood’s biggest awards ceremony.

Kate Hudson, 2026 Oscar nominee, still wants to make rom-coms that last. “People think, ‘We can do that.’ Same formula, same feeling, but less money, newer talent … I don’t think they’re the same genre.”

NYC theatergoers are arriving in droves to judge Jacob Elordi and a skin wall that’s allegedly making the Brontë sisters roll in their graves. Vulture’s Rachel Handler visited cinemas in the city to talk to the first Wuthering Heights audiences.

As a quarter-century (and maybe democracy) comes to a close, a film and TV trope is back: All the cool girls are walking into bodies of water — Rose Byrne, Tessa Thompson, the women on ‘Hacks.’ Is this the defining visual metaphor of 2025?

I worry that by pointing out how insane these movies are for years on end, I have accidentally bullied Netflix into making them more coherent.

Netflix’s Christmas movies are eerily normal this year. ‘My Secret Santa,’ ‘Champagne Problems,’ ‘A Merry Little Ex-Mas,’ and ‘Jingle Bell Heist’ are all workmanlike, occasionally competent. They appear to have been directed. Something’s different.

Mandy Patinkin and Kathryn Grody have entered their Elder Seinfeld era. On their new advice podcast about nothing, ‘Don’t Listen to Us,’ the actor couple argue, make up, weep, and laugh. “And some people like it.”

The Die My Love actress had no problem performing a nude sex scene pregnant. Watching her movie postpartum was harder.

The actress says she had no problem performing a nude sex scene for director Lynn Ramsay while she was pregnant. Watching her movie postpartum, however, was harder to do.

The late Diane Keaton, the star of ‘Baby Boom,’ ‘Father of the Bride,’ and ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ breaks down the genius of her longtime collaborator. Republished from 2020.

Joachim Trier made ‘Sentimental Value’ — a movie about a bad dad who happens to be a director — shortly after becoming a father himself: ‘You’re right, I am exorcising something,’ he tells Rachel Handler.

On Taylor Swift’s “Wood.”

By simply and innocently pressing play on Taylor Swift’s “Wood,” I was forced to choke down a lumber truck’s worth of information about Travis Kelce’s ‘Wood.’ Here’s what I now know against my will.

‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ was like ‘Challengers’ for teenagers, with far-reaching incestuous undertones. Thank God it’s not actually ending.

And I’m actually really sad about it.

And I’m actually really sad about it.

‘And Just Like That …’ was a state of mind, and that mind is in a coma. It was a place to go for 44 minutes a week, a safe and necessary container for our wild and dangerous national id, which will now roam unchecked and destroy us all.

And I’m actually really sad about it.

Jennifer Love Hewitt faced intense sexism early in her career. It almost kept her from returning to the franchise that made her famous.

Jennifer Love Hewitt faced intense sexism early in her career. It almost kept her from returning to the franchise that made her famous, ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer.’

How Melliti and director Hafsia Herzi created a moving portrait of a young Muslim woman exploring her sexuality.

The 95-year-old June Squibb is at the festival as the lead in ‘Eleanor the Great,’ Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.

The 95-year-old is at the festival as the lead in Eleanor the Great, Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.

‘Titane’ director Julia Ducournau was ‘scared’ to make her new film, ‘Alpha,’ and calls it her most ‘exposing’ work yet.

Paul Mescal on his quietly devastating WWI romance, in which he has intense and believable chemistry with Josh O’Connor.

The actor accused of sexual assault received a lifetime achievement award at a Cannes gala. Meanwhile, other canceled men are walking the red carpet.

The director is in town to support his latest film, Highest 2 Lowest, but got sidetracked discussing basketball and the mysteries of the universe.

Jennifer Lawrence speaks at Cannes about how motherhood shaped her role in Lynne Ramsay’s film Die My Love with Robert Pattinson